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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-10-20
The Order of Murderers.

New ORLEANS, Oct. 1O.-A special
to the Picayune. from Greenwood, Miss,
says: Prophet Segur, Mike Brown,
Robert Brown, Major Mack, John Hin.
ton, Robert Owens, Wash johnson and
Wash Scott, negro Masons, charged with
the killing of Harry Taylor and wife,
after a hearing before Justice Parks,
have been, with the exception of the
last named, who gave bond, committed
to Jail without the benefit of bond, to
await the action of the grand jury, and
have been brought here for safe keeping.
Morton Ford, who has been in Jail, will
have preliminary examination to day,
and probably some others not yet arrest
ed. There is clear evidence against them,
and they will no doubt be convicted.
During the preliminary trial, it was dis.
covered that resolution to kill Kerney,
white man who had fight with one of
their brethren, whose arm he broke, was
passed during one of their meetings, but
the time appointed for the deed had not
yet come. Two days were consumed in
taking testimony, and many other ne
groes have been implicated. There is no
doubt that colored man, a member Of
the Dry Bayou Lodge of negro Masons,
was killed by Harry Taylor, and that
both Taylor and his wife had disappeared,
body answering to Taylor's being found
in the river with marks of violence upon
it. The body had been weigted down.
Lodges in the country were organized by
a negro named Stringer, who claims to
be working under the authority of the
Grand Orient of France. Their lodge
was founded in 1882. Several other
lodges have been founded in this section.
Colored Masons are not recognized by
white Masons at all, and their order is
not under the authority of the old York
order of masonry. 1t is hard to say
whether they have an obligation that
teaches them 10 avenge, slay, etc., or
whether they construe the obligations
they take to suit themselves. The white
people of the County are determined to
brake up their lodges and to punish the
guilty members of this death dealing
order. The Circuit Court, when it meets,
will decide upon the matter.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-10-20
How Sulphur Matches are Made.

Nearly all the operations of match
making are now carried on by machin.
ery. The wood is first sawed into blocks
of uniform length, one and a half inches
long, or the length of the match. Those
blocks are then fed into the cutting ma.
chine, which cuts twelve matches at
every stroke. To make round matches
the wood is forced through perforations
in metal plates. The splints are then
put into stats arranged on double chain
$50 feet long. On this they are carried
to the sulphur vat, dipped therein by
mechanical movement, and then in the
same manner to the phosphorus vat and
dipped. Machines are also used for
making the boxes and packing the
splints therein. AS the consumption of
matches is most enormous-being csti-
mated at six a day for every man, woman
and child in Europe and North America
they form an important article OF COM
mcrce, and the invention of machinery
for their manufacture has proven Of
great advantage. But the special value
of machinery is that it so largely reduced
the mortality caused by working over the
phosphorus. The substance when heat.
ed, throws of fumes that cannot be con-
tinuously breathed without causing dis.
ease. In large factories 1ll,OOO small
boxes of matches are often made and
packed ready for shipping in a single
day.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-10-20
TEACHERS INSTITUTE.

Mr.. EDITOR: would like to mention
few of the many good things those
teachers missed who failed to attend the
Institute.
The members of the faculty, inspired
with renewed interest every day, filled
each period with something intensely in
teresting and profitable to us all. They
represented by their actions our ideals of
teachers, showing us that if we expect to
interest our pupils, we must be alive
with interest and enthusiasm ourselves.
We we're shown how flowers, wood,
paper, clay or sand afford the objects
from which children can find out things
for themselves.
In DR.. Klemm's teaching you saw
and felt as we'll as heard. He used
telling illustrations in explaining sub.
ject, often drawing diagrams on the board,
thereby making morelasting impressions.
He tried to impress us with the fact that
the only way to reach cbild's mind is
through the FIVE senses, especially that
of sight, always linking the known with
the unknown. Geography was taught
from board consisting of a map of a
country without cities or boundaries put
down. The child supplies what is lack
ing, so docs his geography as we'll as his
arithmetic. DR.. Klemm says memoriz.
ing names is not geography. Pupils
must be made so familiar with country
that they can travel in imagination over
it, though they have never been ten
miles from home. The same thing is
true of history, which, by being taught
correctly, is nothing but series of mind
pictures.
I wish you could have heard bliss
Leonard's talks on teaching Language
Lessons and English Grammar, also
Prof Morrison's on History of Educa.
tion and School Law. Both were very
instructive. Miss Leonard insisted on
comparison as most valuable in training
the minds of pupils. Her moulding
forms in clay and color lessons were what
we wanted to see. Her method of teach
ing vocal music and calisthenics pleased
us all. We were especially pleased with
DR.. Lander's way of teaching primary
arithmetic. He uses objects, and makes
things plain. he insists upon things
being done we'll, before beginning any
thing else.
Space forbids any further talk, SO can't
tell you this time how much we enjoyed
the fine lectures, the splendid reception
to which we were all invited, or the ex.
hilaratiug walks to that health-giving
spring near the college.
LIZZIE III. ANDERSON.
Sept. 2S, 1887.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-10-20
The Bitter Experience Of a Lancaster
County Negro.

About year ago a party of eleven
families of negroes left Lancaster and
went to Liberia. Thomas Massey, an in.
dustrious and well.to.do negro, was in.
fatuated by the misrepresentation of
some race partisan that Liberia was q
paradise for the negroes, and got up a
party to 60. Some even sold part of
their clothing to raise money enough to
pay their fare. They went, and now
they all want to get back. Some of them
would almost sell themselves into slavery
to live once more in Carolina. Even
Massey, who was so anxious to go, and
who tried to induce many others to go,
wants to get back, as the following letter
in the Lancaster Ledger shows:
CAPE PALMAs, Liberia, Aug. 10, 1887.
Mr.. John r. Welsh.-Sir: I have
landed in Liberia and am not pleased
with it. wish you would please help
me back to my same place. 1 want you
to write soon to me and let me know what
you will do for ME. want you if you
please to make some arrangements to get
me back. You must write 10 Messrs.
Yates e. Porter6eld who own the ships
that come to Liberia. You know me
well. l worked on your plantation four.
teen years and did not fail to pay your
rent. Now l want you to do me favor,
help me back and l will pay you back.
Me and my two sons and my wife want
to come back home, and we look to you
to send us aid. We will stay on your
plantation until we pay you up. You
can write Messrs. Yates and Porterfeld,
115 Wall street, New York, and see what
is their lowest price to fetch four persons
from Liberia to America. Please Mr..
Welsh do all you can for me for I never
failed to stand up to you. Now, I must
close by saying write soon to me if you
please and let me know what you will do
for me. Yours, truly,
JAMES MASSEY.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-10-20
How Hawks and Owls Eat.

1t appears that the table manners
differ among birds, as they do among
human beings. 1t comes to the same
thing in the eLd, but what queer
method it seems, to cat a chicken first
and then pick him!
An enthusiastic sportsman says: "Did
YOU ever notice hawk or all owl prepar.
ing to make meal of a bird? The
difference in their methods is very great
A hawk will first pick all tho feathers
off the bird, and then pick it to pieces as
it is devoured. He goes at it in n very
systematic and dainty manner.
"Not SO with an owl. After killing
a bird, the owl swallows it whole, feath-
ers and all. lie then sits quietly, and in
an hour or so you will see him move his
neck about, as iftrying to untangle a knot
in it. Then he will hump his back, lower
his head, and ball of feathers will roll
out of his mouth.
"Thc operation shows that the owl di'
vests the bird of its feathers after swal.
lowing it. willie the hawk plncks out
every fraiI,"; an.l quill heirrc he takes !:
bite"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-10-20
The Rattlcsnakc's Eye.

Never seeing snake charm bird, or
animal, I concluded it was superstition
or fancy, devoid of fact. So I continued
to think until few days ago, when
farmer friend of mine, living four miles
south of Abilene, told me what he had
lately witnessed. He said he was riding
along on prairie and saw prairie dog
within few feet of him which refused
to scampcr to his hole, as prairie dogs
usually do when approached by man; on
the contrary, he sat as if transfxed to
the spot, though making constant
nervous, shuddering motion, as if anx-
ious to get away. My friend thought
this was strange, and while considering
the spectacle he presently saw large
rattlesnake coiled up under some bushes,
his head uplifted, about six or seven feet
from the dog, which still needed him
not, but looked steadily upon the snake.
He dismounted, took the dog by the
head and thrust him of, when the snake,
which had up to that moment remained
quiet, Immediately swelled with rage,
and began sounding his rattles. The
prairie dog for some tirne seemed
benumbed, hardly capable of motion,
but grew better, and finally got into his
hole. My friend then killed the rattler.
Now, was this a case of charming? If
not, then what was it My friend, who
told me this, is named John Irving
Mcclure, farmer, we'll known to me, a
good and truthful man. / now give it
up that snakes do indeed charm or so
paralyze birds and little animals with
terror, when they catch their eye, that
they become helpless and motionless,
almost dead. What say the scientists?
And to one who is familiar with the
eyes of rattlesnakes, it does not seem
unreasonable that they should have such
power. II you VIII examine the eye OF
one when he is cold in death, you will
perceive that it has an extremely y malig-
nant and terrible expression. When he
is alive and excited I know of nothing in
all nature of so dreadful appearance as
the eye of the rattlesnake. 1t is enough
to strike not only birds and little ami
mails, but men, with nightmare. I have,
on several occasions, examined them
closely with strong glasses. and feel with
all force what I state, and / will tell you
that there are few men on the face of the
earth who can look upon an angered
rattlesnake through good glass-bring.
ing him apparently within foot or two
of the eye-and stand it for more than
m onoort - E,.cGuouo
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-10-20
Only Half Murdered.

BoNnAM, Tex, Oct. l0.-Deputy
Sheriff Mitch. Simmons, of Savoy, tells
sensational story about Jim Scarlett,
the mau who at the last term of the
District Court was sentenced to hang
for the murder of Andy Lacefeld, com.
mitted about three years ago in the
northern part of Fannin County. The
evidence against Scarlett was furnished
by two men who professed to have seen
him come upon LaceGeld while asleep
and strike him repeatedly on the head
with revolver, after trying vain!y to
shoot him. a strong piece Of corrobora.
tive evidence was the dying confession of
convict, who professed to have been
intimidated by Scarlet into helping him
to carry the body to the river. All three
men Scarlet got out Of the way, and it
was with great difficulty that the two
living witnesses were found on the infor-
nation given by the convict.
Pending the trial Scarletts attorney
received letter from a gentleman who
lived near the scene Of the alleged muir.
der, stating that LaceGeld was not dead,
but was then living somewhere in the
county. No particular attention was
paid to this statement, but subsequent
developments have proved the assertion
not without grounds. Deputy Sheriff
Simmons has seen the man who was sup.
posed to have been murdered, and he is
now living near Trenton, about eighteen
miles from this place. The man stated
to Simmons that he was without doubt
the Lacefeld that, when thrown into the
river and left for dead, had regained
consciousness and been restored to life.
When asked why he did not appear dur.
ing the trial and save the condemned
man from death sentence, he said he
did not care if Scarlet was hanged. In
justification of the strong assertion that
he is Lacefeld the man showed the Dep.
uty Sheriff the scars Of the wounds made
by Scarlett's pistol.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-10-20

educational journals, pleading for any
thing that would give the children light
and the teachers power. We congratu.
late ourselves that our efforts have not
been wholly in vain. There are more
educational journals read in Anderson
County now than at any period in the
past; of the eighty white teachers in
Anderson County, more than seventy
attended the Institute at Williamson.
These things mean something. They
mark a new era in the educational pro-.
gress of this County, If we can induce
our teachers to take and read and educa-
tional paper; if we can induce our
teach,i to attend an Institute and drink
deeply u the enthusiasm it radiates, we
count ourselves and the cause We repre-.
sent fortunate. Let us away with the
obstacles that "stand in the door of the
temple of progress" and move steadily
onward.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-10-20
TRUE AS THE GOSPEL.

Now is good time for the teacher to
convert himself. The greatest obstacles
standing in the way of educational pro.
gress are not 80 much outside, as inside
the teaching ranks. There are thousands
of teachers who take no educational
paper, and own no standard educational
book. This is fact 1t is disgrace
There is absolutely no hope for such.
They are stubborn obstacles (ob-sto)
They stand in the door of the temple of
progress, not going in themselves, and
not suffering those who would 60 in to
enter.-Teachers' Institute.
We are glad to know that journal of
so wide spread influence holds the same
opinion that we have been advancing for
the last three years. Surely the greatest
obstacles to progress in the work OF edu-
cation are to be found, not outside, but
inside the ranks of the teachers. That
fact ne have boldly asserted time and
again. "There are thousands of teach
eys who take no educational paper, and
own no standard educational! book. -
Yes, sir, that is truth again: there are
many who, not only do not take or own
these papers and books, but would not
read them if furnished by the State, or
BY some benevolent society. Is such a
man fit to teach school? Are there not
men standing" in the door Of the temple
of progress?" Let each intelligen:
reader of these lines look around him
and behold for himself.
We have argued long, and, we think,
faithfully for better teachers. Our efforts
have not ceased; they shall not cease
We have been pleading for Institutes,
pleading for Associations, pleading TO.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-10-20
4 German of science LDr. Kraus

A German of science (Dr. Krauss
of HALEY not long ago made some studies
about fruit tress. He says that they
sleep during the day, and do most of
their growing by night. The fruit of the
cherry laurel, for example, increases
nine times as fast in the night as in the
day. Apples, however, are not quite so
lazy during the day, for their rate of
growth at night is so per cent, and 90
per cent. by day; that is to say, they
toll only four times as quickly by night
as by day.
News has just reached Chattanooga
of the poisoning of the entire Ogletree
family, consisting of four persons, near
Talladega, Ala. All the members of the
family have already died, consisting of
David Ogletree and wife and two chill
dren. The death was caused by drinking
whiskey in which Mrs. Ogletree had put
strychnine. She had threatened to pois-
on the whole family. The poisoning
took place Thursday, and the deaths
occurred in q few hours.
Johnny" inquired his aunt, "what
do you like best of all" "Candy," re-
piled Johnny. "And what after that 2"
inquired his aunt More candy" re-.
piled Iohnny, after a moments delibera.
tion.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-10-20
A Moonsllincr Arrested.

GAINESVILLE, GA, Oct GA moon
sinner jumped over precipice in White
County to escape the revenue officers, and
in jumping over second ledge was SO
disabled that the officers caught him.
Deputy Collector Ware, with Deputy
Marshals Cape and Carter, stole upon the
still of William J. Crane, near Cleveland,
in White County. When the officers
were almost near enough to surround
the house one of them broke limb of a
tree and Crane heard the noise. With
the quick eye of an Indian he saw the
revenue officer and darted away, hotly
pursued by Ware. Crane jumped over a
ledge of rock to the ground, forty feet
below. Ware did not take the dizzy
leap, but Cape ran round to the bottom
of the precipice. Crane was stunned by
the fall, but got up and ran from Cape.
He jumped over another ledge and fell
stunned to the ground. Cape ran down,
and, levelling his gun on the moonshiner,
ordered him to surrender. III don't give
for your gun, but the breath is
knocked out of me and l cannot rum"
said Crane. The officers came up, and
Craine was handcuhed and taken to
Gainnsville.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-10-20
Successful Labrat0ry.

CINc1SSArI, Sept. 2G.-The operation
of laparotomy has just been performed in
this city, and the life Of "Banty" Mitchell,
colored tough, saved by it. Mitchell
was shot in low resort on Sunday night
by Bob Bryant in quarrel over game
of craps. The ball, fired from a 81
calibre revolver, entered the abdomen,
leaving small round hole triae above
and to the left of the umbilicus. When
he was taken to the ward he was writh.
ing in agony, and from the hasty exami-
nation made it was believed lie could
live but few hours.
at the hospital DR.. P. S. Conner con-
cluded that the ball had penetrated the
stomach, and probably the intestines.
Under ordinary circumstances the wound
would have been treated only to ease the
patients pain, as there would be scarcely
any hope for recovery but Mitchell is a
man of fine and powerful physique, and
DR.. Conner, thinking that his iron con.
stitution would stand it, suggested the
only hope Of safety-that of an opera
tion.
The patient was suffering intense pain.
His wishes were consulted, and the case
was fully explained. He knew that
death was inevitable if something was
not done, and on the other hand that
few persons survived the operation more
than few hours. Something had to be
done, and that at once, as every instant
the patient grew worse. He hesitated
only moment and then consented.
Preparations were begun at once.
instruments to meet every emergency
that might arise were brought to the
operating room. Perfectly cool and ap-
parently unconcerned, Mitchell allowed
the surgeons to remove his clothing and
lay him on the operating table. DR..
Murphy was present to act as DR.. Con.
ner's assistant, and administered the
anasthetic, that soon rendered the
patient unconscious. A little group Of
interested internes stood in q group
about the operating table, and death.
like silence reigned as the surgeon re.
moved his coat preparatory to the proba'
bly, fatal cut.
Then DR.. Conner, with steady hand,
made an incision extending nearly the
whole length of the left side of the ab-
domen. The external part Of the opera
tion was finished, and then came the
extremely delicate operation of removing
the intestines from their place. As the
operation progressed the surgeon pro-
ceeded more slowly. Nine bullet holes
were discovered, and in addition several
large blood vessels had been severed by
the ball, and the prospect of saving the
patients life was indeed gloomy one.
DR.. Conner, however, never stopped for
second. The holes were sewed up and
the intestines were carefully put back
into position. The external wound was
closed with silk and silver wire. The
work had taken over three hours. The
patient soon recovered, and did not ap.
pear to suffer much pain.
Since then Mitchell has steadily i'm
proved, even beyond the most sanguine
hopes of the surgeons. The only danger
apprehended at this stage is from inham.
nation.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-10-20
The Vision Of the Lord.

Dannecker, the German sculptor, oc.
cupied eight years upon mafule statue
of Christ. When he had labored two
years the work was apparently finished.
He called into his studio little girl, and
directing her attention to the statue,
asked her, "Who is that?" She replied,
"Some great man." The artist turned
away disheartened. His artistic eye had
been deceived. He had failed, and his
two years of labor were thrown away.
But he began anew; and after another
year or two had passed he again invited
the child into his studio, aud repeated
the inquiry, "Who is that?" This time
he was not disappointed. After looking
in silence for awhile, her curiosity deep.
ened into awe and thankfulness, and
bursting into tears, she said, in low and
gentle tones, "Suffer little children to
come unto me-" 1t vas enough. The
untutored instinct OF the child had dl.
vined his meaning, and be knew that his
work was success. He believed then,
and ever afterward, that he had been in.
spired of God to do that thing. He
thought that he had seen vision of
Christ in his solitary vigils. He had but
transferred to the marble the image which
the Lord had shown to him.
His rising fame attracted the attention
of Napoleon, and he was requested to
make statue of Venus similar to the
Ariadne, for the gallery of the Louvre
He refused, saying, ga man who has
seen Christ would commit sacrilege if he
should employ his art in the carving
of pagan goddess. My art is hence.
forth consecrated thing"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-10-20
. Three of the five Utah Commission

Three of the FIVE Utah Commission
ers agree upon the annual report present.
ing the affairs of that Territory. The
population is about 100000, and the
property is assessed at valuation of
100000. The Mormon population
is 10000, 10000, of whom are
children under s years of age. The
income of the church from fittings was
$4,000, in 1880, and must now be much
greater. Since the passage of the Ed
munds act in 1882, 54l persons have
been indicted for unlaw cohabitation and
2S9 have been convicted. Fourteen have
been convicted of polygamy and many
have fled to void arrest
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-10-20

We are glad to see neat, new school
house at Meals Creek; and we are re-.
joiced that the patrons Of the Cedar
Grove school are arranging to build a
new Church and turn the old Church
building into school house. Hurrah
for Cedar Grove!